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Closing Pitch Podcast
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Embracing Obstacles: Why Anything That Stands in Your Way is Worth Pursuing
Obstacles can be challenging, but they can also be opportunities for growth and achievement. In this episode, we explore...
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The Road to Redemption: Stories of Being Cut and Coming Back Stronger
We're in tryout season. Everyone is gearing up for the new year with anxious minds and hearts to play on the big stage o...
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Scholarship Dreams: May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
How many scholarships are there in your sport? What about the number of players who are playing in college? What are the...
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Behind Bars for Berating Sports Officials: The New Kansas Bill on Youth Sports
Kansas House Bill 2139 would make verbal or physical abuse of an umpire a misdemeanor. If this passes, how will the yout...
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Fueling Champions: How Healthy Eating Impacts Youth Athletes and Coaches
Fuel your season with the right food. We have Jillian Tedesco, the owner of Fit-Flavors, a podcaster, an author, and a m...
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Best Player on the Team Mentality (ft. Evan Pratte)
How many times do you see players dive? Or go hard into a bag? Or even playing their practices like games? In this episo...
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Skills that Scale, Deven Morgan - Round 2
Deven Morgan from Driveline Academy is here for round 2 of baseball conversations. We touch on winter baseball events, p...
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Don't Be That Coach
Coaches, think about how you want your team to be built before building it. This helps with eliminating problems like FO...
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These are the next big things happening in baseball
We recently got back from the ABCA, and boy, 'do we have insights for you!' There are a lot of great projects being crea...
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Pro Scouts Look For This
When I was playing, there were a lot of rumors about how the pro scouting community found their players. It was a guessi...
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Is the Deck Stacked Against You?
Is it time for us to quit? We should probably sell the mics, cameras, and lighting equipment. We're never going to make ...
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Swim In a Different Direction (Recruiting + Twitter)
Recruiting + Twitter + Think Different Does it feel like you're not getting traction on your recruiting? Are you not get...
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Jonny Hustle vs Peacocking Pete
History rhymes, and sometimes it completely repeats, but the majority of the time it's a newer version of what was in th...
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The Deceptions of a Crowd
How do you change the vibe of a team? What do you do when you have negative nancy complaining about the weather, turf, o...
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Play Fast & Play Free With This Hack
Getting locked in our minds can be the tiniest prison. We can easily put ourselves in this place by traveling down the r...
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How To Know When It's Time to Move On
Struggling? greener pastures? When should you persevere and when should you quit? Closing Pitch Twitter Follows: Spiker ...
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How to Get Off the Island of Me
We recently were at the PBR Nationals at Lake Point in Emerson, Georgia. We saw some unbelievable talent, but one obviou...
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The Five Caps To Make An Alpha Decision
This is a more reflective episode. I wanted to share something I learned after listening to an interview during one of m...
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Know EXACTLY When Your Pitcher Shouldn't Throw
Pitch counts suck! Yep, we said it, and here's why...In this episode, we speak with Jordan Oseguera who is the Director ...
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The Career Baseball Curse
The track of a player's career is fascinating. The journey is unique to each player, but there's one pitfall that potent...
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Stack 'Em High For All To See
Don't be discouraged; you're doing something others are unwilling to do. Losing sucks! I hate losing more than I love wi...
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Three Things To Know During Tryout Conversations
You need to know here when you're talking with multiple teams during the tryout process. Especially at the high school l...
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Leaders Avoid This Mistake
With mics, cameras, and a social media handle, you can influence a group of people. This doesn't necessarily mean you're...
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Tactical Guide to Recruiting V3.0 (ft. Evan Pratte)
Its' been less than 365 days since our second edition of the Tactical Guide to Recruiting. A lot has happened and we're ...
